Baby's First Dominator: Pyro/Arsenal

[skoryy]

I have a vague idea of what I'm doing here. I do a lot of PuG teaming and small teams, and the odd solo when I feel like merit farming. Permadom was a must and I got that. I also fit in some defense including a lot of ranged, even though she'll be throwing elbows and rifle butts a lot. Wish I had a better place for the ATO, but the adaptive recharge will mean it'll get a lot of use against harder targets.

 

I think she'll do well, but I want to run her past the dom veterans first before I go into any respecs.

 

Foxfire - Dominator (Pyrotechnic Control - Arsenal Assault).mbd

[Warshades]

Not a dom expert by any means and haven't ever played /arsenal on a dom so take the suggestions with a grain of salt. To me it looks like you possibly have to many attacks and not enough slots to spread around to some powers. I removed Buttstroke to have some extra slots and changed some sets to get more recharge and ranged defense, also added an armor to provide you some resistance to the most common s/l/e damage types. Kept most of pyro slotting the same, I haven't really experimented with it to know what would work best so others may have better ideas there. I don't know about the merits of having achilles proc in Burst sine the PPM rate would be so low in it. 

Foxfire - Dominator (Pyrotechnic Control - Arsenal Assault).mbd

[skoryy]

11 hours ago, Warshades said:

Not a dom expert by any means and haven't ever played /arsenal on a dom so take the suggestions with a grain of salt. To me it looks like you possibly have to many attacks and not enough slots to spread around to some powers. I removed Buttstroke to have some extra slots and changed some sets to get more recharge and ranged defense, also added an armor to provide you some resistance to the most common s/l/e damage types. Kept most of pyro slotting the same, I haven't really experimented with it to know what would work best so others may have better ideas there. I don't know about the merits of having achilles proc in Burst sine the PPM rate would be so low in it. 

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Thanks for the feedback!  Buttstroke was going to be part of the single target chain, and Charged Armor plus Tough gets me just below 50 S/L resist and I'm not sure that's completely worth it.

 

Having actually put her lower-level powers to work, however, and seeing how they work, I'm probably gonna start from scratch. I need to at least buff her AoE because the Column and Missiles alone aren't cutting it so far.

[Uncle Shags]

I would find it very difficult to not take a power named Buttstroke. 

[skoryy]

So, revised build.  I'm stuck with Sparkling Chain since there wasn't much else at 2, and Hypnotizing Lights is the other "Oh Poopie" power next to Explosive Bouquet but I didn't have the slots.  Buttstroke is gone, Buckshot is back (hail to the king), and I pumped up Targeting Drone so that I get the +22% To Hit to make Sniper Rifle shine.  And still have more than enough recharge for Permadom.  Defense is... eh, but the Column, the now proc-bombed Missiles, the Mine, and the Aura should do a lot to help there. I'll give her a whirl on Brainstorm later and see how she does.

 

Officer Foxfire - Dominator (Pyrotechnic Control - Arsenal Assault).mbd

[Johnny Dynamo]

Any chance these can be posted to show for those of us with Mid's challenges?  🙂

[Warshades]

12 hours ago, Johnny Dynamo said:

Any chance these can be posted to show for those of us with Mid's challenges?  🙂

 

First image was the build skoryy posted, second image are the adjustments/changes I did to it, and third image is the revised build by skoryy. 

 

 

 

 

Edit: as a side note and something I didn't catch initially, Power Up was toggled on when I was making adjustments and that did affect the defense calculations from powers. Without Power Up, the build I posted only hits 41.3% range defense and not 48% as shown in the image.

Edited June 21 by Warshades

[BrandX]

This is the combo I'm going with.  This is the build I have so far, skipping the melee of Arsenal, seeing as how Pyro seems to be very range centric.

 

 

Dominator (Pyrotechnic Control - Arsenal Assault).mbd

[BrandX]

Here's my new build after some more playing and reworking...

Dominator (Pyrotechnic Control - Arsenal Assault).mbd